That charge was dropped in return for Thursday's plea. One of Marion Stogner's two alleged victims, now a grown woman, was later abused by his son Randy during the early 1970s, Knox said. To protect the victims, officials have given few details of the alleged crimes.īut Forsythe, who works for the Contra Costa County Sheriff, said he found the relationships between victims and suspects so complicated "I had to draw a flow chart to figure them out." They thought that this was a normal way of life," prosecutor Mary Knox said. "The incest conduct was so pervasive in this family that the victims did not even realize it was wrong. A second son, John Stogner, 34, has served seven years in prison for molestation in a separate case. One, Randy Stogner, 46, pleaded no contest Thursday to charges of molesting his two stepdaughters from 1995 to 1997 and was sentenced to one year in jail. His sons are accused of repeating his behavior. Prosecutors say he abused two close family members between 19. The case began with a call from a woman worried that her husband was molesting one of his stepdaughters.īefore it was over, Detective Chris Forsythe would find "a lot of nightmares," decades of incest and child sexual abuse that, authorities say, became one family's tradition.The family patriarch, Marion Reynolds Stogner, 70, is being held on $100,000 bail in Arizona for investigation of engaging in lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.
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